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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS

June 16, 1996Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1996, 12:07 AM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 1996, 12:07 AM CDT (05:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1996, 3:05 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -189 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 160509 COR
FFWGLD
KSC039-137-NEC145-160805-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1107 PM MDT (1207 AM CDT) SAT JUN 15 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 305 AM CDT (205 AM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

   ...DECATUR COUNTY
   ...NORTHWESTERN NORTON COUNTY

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHERN RED WILLOW COUNTY
 
AT 1201 AM CDT...THE HEAVY RAINS FROM EARLIER TONIGHT CONTINUE TO
PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING ACROSS DECATUR COUNTY ALONG SAPPA CREEK. THIS
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST NORTON COUNTY BY
130 AM CDT. IN NORTHERN DECATUR COUNTY...BEAVER CREEK CONTINUES TO
RUN BANKFULL...AND FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN NORTHERN DECATUR AND
SOUTHERN RED WILLOW THROUGH 3 AM CDT.


BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGER OF FLOODI~NG.

TURNER

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 15, 9:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 9:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
848 PM MDT (948 PM CDT) SAT JUN 15 1996

SURFACE AND UPPER LOW PULLING OUT... WITH NORTHWEST WINDS NEARING
MCCOOK AND WELL ESTABLISHED IN GOODLAND.  LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH
HEAVY RAINS WORKING SLOWLY EAST AS SYSTEM MOVES OUT... WITH NORTH
END MOVING A LITTLE FASTER THAN SOUTH END.

LOW CLOUDS AND FOG NOTED IN AKO OBS AND PICKED UP BY KGLD 88-D...
MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST.

WILL UPDATE ZONES SHORTLY TO PICK UP ON MOVEMENT OF STORMS... LOW
CLOUDS... FOG... AND PROGRESS OF NORTHWEST WINDS.

GLD  060/080/056/088 711     HLC 063/075/060/086 732
CBK  061/078/058/087 711     MCK 061/074/058/085 831
TRB  063/082/055/090 511     ITR 0v58/080/055/086 721

ENTWISTLE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 10:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Red Willow	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.